Asian food restaurant Wagamama has produced its first vegan menu – so vegan it doesn’t even contain orange juice.

“Shellac, which comes from beetles, is used to preserve oranges,” said Greg Hrechanyk, general manager at Wagamama’s Royal William Yard eatery. “So the main menu has orange juice, but it’s not vegan friendly so we took it off the new vegan menu.

“And our bang bang cauliflower has a firecracker sauce with orange in it, so that’s on the vegetarian menu, not the vegan one.

“This has been a massive learning opportunity for us as a team. We got right into this.”

For starters... vegan dishes at Wagamama (Image: Paul Slater)

Mr Hrechanyk and his chefs at Wagamama have put their heads together to produce a vegan menu that will “knock your socks off”.

Veganism has become one of Britain’s fastest growing lifestyle movements, with at least 542,000 people now following a vegan diet.